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| List of figures | |
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| List of tables | |
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| Preface | |
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| Why mapping? | |
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| How is the book organized? | |
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| Who are the authors? | |
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| Who is this book for? | |
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| How can the book be used? | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Why do we use different languages? | |
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| Ten ways we're led astray in language and applied linguistics | |
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| Applied linguistics | |
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| Bottom-up applied linguistics | |
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| Activities | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Language in Everyday Use | |
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| Language variation | |
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| Language variation and social judgement | |
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| Kinds of variation | |
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| Standardization and 'non-standard' varieties | |
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| Non-native varieties and World Englishes | |
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| Linguistic insecurity and language loss | |
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| Context and language practices | |
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| Casting ahead | |
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| Activities | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Key populations | |
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| Issues in the naming of populations | |
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| Issues in the categorizing of populations | |
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| Populations characterized by the language(s) used | |
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| Populations characterized by issues of access to language | |
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| Populations characterized by the social role of language | |
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| Populations characterized by their professional or academic interest in language | |
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| Roles for applied linguists | |
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| Activities | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Discourse analysis | |
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| The pervasive relevance of discourse (analysis) | |
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| Linguistic approaches to discourse analysis | |
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| Social approaches to discourse analysis | |
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| Themes in contemporary discourse analysis | |
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| How can doing discourse analysis help the clients of applied linguists? | |
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| Activities | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Language policy and planning | |
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| Language decisions | |
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| Corpus, status and acquisition planning | |
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| Keeping languages alive | |
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| Planning for access to services | |
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| Language policy and planning in globalizing times | |
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| Roles for applied linguists | |
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| Activities | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Language, Learning And Education | |
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| Literacy | |
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| The expanding scope of literacy | |
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| Writing systems and culture | |
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| Literacy and individuals | |
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| Child and adult literacies | |
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| Academic achievement and the measurement of literacy | |
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| Roles for applied linguists | |
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| Activities | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Language and education | |
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| The language of home, community and school | |
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| Language as a medium in school | |
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| Language as an object in school | |
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| Educating linguistic minorities and learners with special needs | |
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| Language, testing and assessment | |
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| Roles for applied linguists | |
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| Activities | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Bilingual and multilingual education | |
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| Definitions and purposes | |
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| Language-based frames | |
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| Content-based frames | |
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| Context-based frames | |
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| Integrating the frameworks | |
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| Characteristics of effective programmes | |
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| Roles for applied linguists | |
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| Activities | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Additional language education | |
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| Contexts of additional language education | |
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| The problem of method | |
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| Individual learner differences | |
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| Assessing additional languages | |
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| Economic, cultural and political aspects of additional language education | |
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| Roles for applied linguists | |
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| Activities | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Language And Expert Uses | |
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| Translation | |
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| Contexts of translation | |
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| Translatability and translation equivalence | |
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| The translation process | |
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| What do translators need to know? | |
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| Types of translation | |
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| Interpreting and audiovisual translation | |
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| Technology in translation | |
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| Roles for applied linguists | |
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| Activities | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Lexicography | |
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| Words in the mind and in society | |
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| Authority or record? | |
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| Uses and types of dictionaries | |
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| Dictionary compilation | |
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| Dictionaries as tools for learning | |
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| Corpora, computers and the internet | |
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| Roles for applied linguists | |
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| Activities | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Forensic linguistics | |
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| Language as legal medium and matter | |
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| The language of the law | |
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| Language and criminal investigation | |
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| Language as the subject matter of law | |
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| Discourse and different languages in the courtroom | |
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| Roles for applied linguists | |
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| Activities | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Language pathology | |
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| Biological and social foundations of language | |
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| Types of language pathology | |
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| Assessment | |
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| Treatment | |
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| Roles for applied linguists | |
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| Activities | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Prospects and perspectives | |
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| The impact of new technologies | |
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| The dissolution of borders | |
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| The exercise of the profession | |
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| Key predictions | |
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| Final thoughts | |
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| Activities | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| General Index | |
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| Index of languages | |
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| Index of places | |